Re: warning -- email virus attack.

[Mika Tuupola]

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> Any user of the mail lists found to be propogating this virus will be 
> removed to protect all of our other users - if you are infected, you 
        
        Of course this worm can spread through your mailinglist 
        _only_ if you allow attachments. Strip them out and the
        mailinglist is safe.

> have to post to the mailing lists to send out the infection. And you 
> are not safe from this virus if you don't post to the lists, because 
> this virus can vector in from ANY e-mail source or any mailing list.

        Quickly reading through symantec site you can read you
        will be infected only if you run the attached exe file.

> virus is successfully propogating among my users, but I'm not 
> hopeful. All list owners need to be very wary of this beast.

        This email worm might be annoying but I'd hardly call it
        a beast.

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Mika Tuupola                      http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/